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11 “Though you rejoice, though you exult,
    you plunderers of my inheritance,
though you skip around like a heifer in the grass[a]
    and neigh like stallions,
12 your mother will be greatly devastated,
    she who gave birth to you will be ashamed.
She will become the least of the nations,
    a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
13 Because of the anger of the Lord
    she won’t be inhabited,
    but will be utterly devastated.
Everyone who passes by Babylon will be horrified
    and will scoff[b] because of all her wounds.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:11 So LXX; MT reads like a threshing heifer
  2. Jeremiah 50:13 Lit. hiss; i.e. hissing was an expression of contempt